Παρασκευή, 26 Φεβρουαρίου 2016

NO MAN EYES – Cosmogony review

NO
MAN EYES from Italy exist since 2011 and in 2013 they released their debut
album entitled “Hollow Man”. Now, 2 years after their debut release and under a
new label they are ready to release their new work entitled “Cosmogony”.

Their
new release carries of course a title that shows ambition and somehow describes
the thing that every artist does, which is the creation of worlds through its
art and more specifically here through music.

The
label has tagged NO MAN EYES under the heavy metal genre, but I have to admit
that there is more in their sound than simple heavy metal riffs and melodies.
The sound of the band is an amalgam of traditional and modern metal elements
with the second ones overruling. Their sound has grooves, melodies and riffs
that are close to genres like modern melodic thrash metal and melodic death
metal. The band, though, uses clean vocals and their songs have a structure
that you usually meet into progressive metal. Personally speaking I think that
in a way they are close to bands like NEVERMORE (although these guys are more
melodic) and EVERGREY, but they also have their own musical identity.

“Cosmogony”
is an album that has variety and complexity and I think that people who are
into modern metal might find here an interesting release to listen to. In my
opinion, though, this album lacks of songs that will stay in your mind since
the band pays more attention to create compositions based on technicality and
complexity.